rub out

He fidgets endlessly with his hands as if trying to rub out the scars.

But I felt that her story had been subsumed had been rubbed out, she'd been made invisible by the official version.

After the war, they saw no need to rub out their past.

Neel didn’t bother to rub out their footprints as they climbed the lower half of the trail that sloped up the bank.

“Can a community whose past has been deliberately rubbed out, and whose energies have subsequently been consumed by the search for legible traces of its history, imagine possible futures?” he wondered.